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The tour showed “Refreshing…” and grey placeholders: the ready check passed on the old page before the route changed

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Rule: If a recorded click or Enter navigates, do it under the cover and wait for the new pathname before checking for skeletons; click a page's toggles once off the record (staleTime Infinity keeps them).
Snippet: // before: returns at once — the old page is still "ready" await page.keyboard.press("Enter") await settle(desk, 600) // after: the navigation happens under the cover await cut(async () => { await page.keyboard.press("Enter") await settle(desk, 600, "/money-management/budget") })
Check: the third cut (92.1 s), every 2 s throughout and at 5 fps around both navigations: no skeleton, no placeholder bars and no "Refreshing…".
Applies to: other: Playwright recording of a Next.js app with TanStack Query placeholderData
I assumed: settle() (shell ready, no [aria-busy] or [data-slot=skeleton] in main) after pressing Enter in the palette meant the Budget page had loaded.
What happened: the first cut (91.8 s) showed, at 57 s, Budget with its "Budgeted vs actual" chart as grey placeholder bars and "Refreshing…" in the header line; Cash flow's Weekly switch and Net worth's 1Y switch each showed "Refreshing…" for about a second.
Why: right after Enter the frame still held the Loans page, which was ready, so the check returned before the client navigation began. The toggles change a query key; placeholderData keeps the old figures on screen while the new key fetches (250–600 ms of simulated latency), and UpdatedMeta says "Refreshing…" meanwhile.
The fix: scripts/listing-video.mjs: settle(f, ms, "/money-management/budget") waits for f.waitForURL(...) first and also for no "Refreshing…" in main; warm(f, names) clicks each toggle behind the cover before the scene, then the default again. The second cut still showed #5099's "Loading the invoice…" skeleton for about half a second: the click had started the route before the cover faded in. Now the tap's ripple plays on the link and the click itself happens inside cut() (cover on, recording paused).
Evidence: contact sheets of all three cuts, 2026-10-30.

The tour showed “Refreshing…” and grey placeholders: the ready check passed on the old page before the route changed

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